Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there .
2 If the no-arbitrage condition applies at time t , that is , F t = ( S t - D ) ( l + r ) , the expected return on the portfolio is equal to the risk-free rate , that is E ( R p ) = r ( Grant , 1982b ) .
3 Like the best wines , distinguished architecture matures over time : 50 years from now , Lloyds will be championed by as yet unborn conservationists , fought over in the media and ultimately listed Grade One .
4 Emergency Communist party congress makes radical break with the past East German leader pleads for time to reform state .
5 The magnitude of the deviations from the no-arbitrage price fell over time for both indices .
6 Philosophy deals systematically with questions that every reflective person asks from time to time .
7 The private delicts of one group may well be public crimes in another society , or acceptable social behaviour in a third , especially when the abhorrence of certain social behaviour wanes over time .
8 Popular parlance spoke of Time as a medium wherein one had a certain independence of movement quite at variance with scientific dogma .
9 This proposition amounts to an efficiency explanation of both the variety of organizational forms that exists at any one time and the way in which the pattern of organizations in the commercial world evolves over time .
10 Who may make a few inconvenient sexual overtures on the ritually appropriate nights of the week , and will want his strictly kosher dinner cooked on time .
11 While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration .
12 The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients .
13 In later Christian debate the history of the formation of the biblical canon has at times become a sensitive issue : were the books admitted to the church 's canon because they were self-authenticating , and a passive act of the community was to acknowledge their inherent authority ?
14 Despite the imperfect fidelity of replication of the micelles — the average size decreases with time — the Swiss researchers believe that they have demonstrated the suitability of the micellar model as a simple chemical autopoietic system .
15 Do these major differences in changes in assumed unit costs over time stem from a careful study of differential inflation and actual changes in expenditure ?
16 It is not easy to lay down a simple formula based on time and geographical area as each case will turn on its own facts .
17 This remarkable insect manages to time its reproductive cycle to coincide with its short period of exposure .
18 They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound .
19 In a beaker at one of the duty stations cold tea rippled in time with the siren .
20 They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre .
21 ‘ I should like to huff and to puff and to blow his house down and take Maggie away from him and she and me and Francie could go back to Ireland and live quietly together and play music and have a little step dancing from time to time . ’
22 The bar on the electric fire buzzed from time to time .
23 The research does not just attempt to see when , where , whether and which people pack more into their lives but to bridge the gap between existing empirical work based on time budgets and more subjective accounts of the process .
24 Again a useful device tested by time is to use index cards to separate facts from opinions , evidence from argument .
25 His nasogastric tube has from time to time to be removed or re-inserted .
26 This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion .
27 It is quite an elaborate item : Youth and Age sit on an oval cartouche flanked by Time and Eternity .
28 Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery .
29 The relation between archbishop and prime minister became at times very uneasy .
30 The collection of historical data on natural hazards is important since it is clear that their spatial pattern varies through time .
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